Place the same positive electric charge uniformly on the sphere of radius , with no external field. Every concentric interior Gaussian surface encloses zero charge; spherical symmetry then makes the interior electric field zero. Outside, it is again . At , the inner and outer limits differ by , with surface charge density . The ideal surface charge makes the field discontinuous, so the plot displays one-sided limits rather than assigning a single field value on the charged sheet. An isolated charged conducting sphere in electrostatic equilibrium realizes this exterior/interior pattern.
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